Closure for garments.



PATENTBD AUG. 21, 1906.

H. O. STANLEY.

2 SHEETS-438E121 1.

WITNESSES:

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CLOSURE FOR GARMENTS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed April 25, 1904. Serial No. 204 529.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY C. STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Im roved Closure for Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel closing device for womens garments, such as the closure for a shirt-waist, body of a dress, or the placket of a dress-skirt, which will besimple, neat in appearance, and convenient in use, and will dispense with the employment of buttons or the like for the purpose indicated.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an exterior view, in part, of a dress-waist at its closure, showing the i111 proved fla -closing devices applied thereto and partia ly elosin or securing them in contact at their vertica edges. Fig. 2 is an inner side view of the waist portion shown in Fig. 1 showin the flaps and the improvement applied t ereto, the closing operation bein partially completed. Fig. 3 is an enlarge perspective inner side view of a dress or shirt waist at and near the upper edge thereof, showing the improvement applied thereto and the waist-flaps closed by its connection therewith. Fig. 4 is a partly sectional perspective view of the exterior of a waist in part, the section being taken substantially on the line 4 4 in Fi 1, showing the closing device applied an holdin together the edge portions of the waist. Fig. 5 is a sectional perspective view substantially on. the line 5 5 in Fig.1, showing a shirt-waist in part and the closing device thereon. Fig. 6 is a enlarged fragmentary view showing a part of Fig. 2. Fi 6 is a vertical transverse sectional view ta en substantially on the line 6 6 in Fig. 6, seen in direction of the arrows in said figure. Fig. 7 is a longitudinally-shortencd side view of a closing-strip which is a detail of the invention, and Fig. 8 is an interior detached side and upper end view of a keeper-loop, which in suitable number is employed.

In the drawings, 10 indicates the rear portion of a dress-body or shirt-waist, the He s of which are to be detachablyheld connecte and their side edges slightly lapped by means of the improvement. Two spaced and resilient thin husk-strips 11 12 are employed, which are of equal length and width and have paral lel side edges, and on these husk-strips a se ries of similar keeper-loops 13 are mounted and preferably evenly spaced apart. As best shown in Fig. 8, each keeper-loop consists of the rear fiat section 0, the narrow side sections a a, at right angles thereto, and the front flange-sections 0 e forming continuous unbroken sections of the husk-strips and extending parallel with the rear section e. One of these loops is always located at the extreme upper end of my device, and the up per adjacent corners e e of the husk-strips are rounded or beveled to form a flaring mouth, as it were, at the upper end of the upper loop.

In the husk-strip 1.1 a pair of spaced perforations I) are formed close to each other at the rear of each of the loops, (see Fig. 8,) and in the part of said busk-strip between the loops other pairs of perforations b are formed, (see Figs. 4, 5, and 8,) which perforations afford means for securing the husk-strip 11 upon an appropriate flap 10 of the dressbody or shirt-waist 10, as indicated by stitches f, which pass through the pairs of perforations b b and through the fabric of the shirt-waist.

Along the side edge of the flap 10 a casing 10 is formed or secured, which is of such width as to be adapted to loosely fill the interior space in each keeper-loop 13 when inserted therein. This easing may be made of any soft flexible material.

To join together the side edges of the waistflaps, a closing-strip 14 is employed. This consists of a flap-strip of resilient sheet metal or other available material of a proper length to extend through the casin 10 and reject somewhat therefrom at eac end of tie casing, it being understood that the latter is of an equal length with that of the body or shirt-waist opening. The closing-strip 14 is widened somewhat, as at d, at and near the upper end thereof, affording a head to enable the free manipulation of the strip and prevent it from passing down too far in the easing 10, and, as shown in. Fig. 7, the lower end 0 of the closing-strip is tapered edgewise, so as to facilitate the insertion of said. strip into the casing.

The space between the husk-strips 11 and 12 is such as will permit the free lateral passage of the casing through said space or opening into the keeper-loops, the rounding 0 the upper corners e of the husk-strips facilitat 111g such an insertion.

ally into the said upper loop, and as the strip .is passed downward the casing will in the same manner be entered successively in the series of kee er-loops 13, which Will cause a distension o the casing in said keeper-loops, locking it therein and obviously closing the side edges of the waist-flaps in contact with each other.

Upon the neckband 10 of the body or shirt-waist 10 a hook g and mating eye g are secured near the ends of said band, which hook and eye may be engaged with each other after the closing-strip 14 has been inserted into the casing 10, and the latter is thus drawn into the keeper-loops 13.

At the waist-line of the body or shirt-waist 10 a hook h may be laced on one flap and an eye h on the other ap of the garment, these when engaged serving to finish the closure of the flaps, and the ends of the buslestrips, closing-strip, and easing may all be concealed by a waist ribbon or belt usually worn with a dress or sh rt waist.

To release the fastening of the flaps for a removal of the garment, the hooks and eyes g g and h h are first disengaged and then the closing-strip 14 is w thdrawn from the casing 10 by an upward pull, which will permit the pliable casin to pass out of the openings in the keeper-loops 13, which will release the side edges of the garment.

It will be evident that the improved closure for garments may be readily ap lied to the placket of a skirt, the operation or closing and opening the placket being similar to that already described for the closure and release of the flaps of a dress-body or shirtwalst.

While the busk-stri s and loops of my device are shown and described as integrally formed, it is obvious thatthey may be formed separately and then connected together by securing the flanges of the loops to the buskstrips.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A closure for a garment comprising two husk-strips, a plurality of keeper-loops on the bush-strips, all open at the same side, a closing-stri p, and a casing on a garmentbody or waist, said closi11g-stri1) being insertible through the keeper-loops for engaging and holding said casin g on the garment-body.

2. A closure for a garment comprising two husk-strips spaced apart and secured on the same flap edge of a garment-body or waist, a plurality of spaced keeper-loops, secured to said husk-strips, a resilient closing-strip, insertible tln'ough all the keeper-loops, and a casing on an edge of one flap adapted to be engaged by said. closing-stri p and drawn into the keeper-loops thereby in. sequence 3. A closure for a garment comprising two resilient husk-strips spaced apart and having )arallel side edges, a plurality of keeperloops secured on said bush-strips so as to projeet at the same side thereon at intervals, and a flat closing-strip that is resilient and insertible endwise through all the kee ')erloops in sequence, one husk-strip being secured upon a side edge of a fla on a garment-body or Waist, the other side edge of the garment, having a casing thereon adapted to be drawn into the keeper-loo )s and held therein by an insertion of the e osing-strip through the loops and easing.

4. A garment-closure com rising two buskstrips adapted to be securerF at one side of an opening in a garment, a plurality of kee 7 er loops secured to said. husk-strips and hol 7 ing the same spaced apart, and a closingstrip insertible in the keeper-loops and adapted to engage a flexible casing at the other side of the garment-opening to draw the easing into said 100 s in sequence, through the space between t e husk-strips, and to hold said casing in said loops.

5. A garment-closure, comprising a inrality of open and spaced loops united by connecting means, said loops and connecting means being adapted to be secured to a garment at one side of an opening therein, and a closing-strip adapted to be received into said loops and carry with it through the openings in the loops, a portion of the garment at the other side of the garment-opening.

6. In a garment-closure, the combination with a garment having an opening, of a casin -like member having its front and rear sides a proximately parallel and provided in one si c with a lon itudinal opening, said casing-like member eing of a length approximately equal tothe length of the garment-openin and secured to one side ofsaid opening, and a closing member of greater width than the opening in the casing-1i ke member and adapted to be received into the casing-like member and carry with it through the opening therein a portion of the garment at the other side of the garment-opening.

7. A garment-closure, comprising a air of strips spaced apart and connected Wit each other by a plurality of spaced loops projecting from one face of said strips, the strips bein adapted to be secured to a arment at one si e of an opening therein, anr a flat closingstrip of a width greater than the space between the loop-carrying stri s and adapted to be received into the said oops and carry with it through the space between the strips r5 a portion of the garment at the other side of the garment-opening.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY C. STANLEY.

Witnesses:

JNo. M. BITTER. C. E. HoLsKE. 

